The crew’s swift action limited damage to the towing vessel Desperado when a ruptured hydraulic hose spraying fuel on a hot engine led to a fire aboard 1982-built vessel when transiting Louisiana’s Lake Salvador, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday.
The fire broke out in the engine room as the Desperado was transiting near Bayou Perot, Louisiana, on Feb. 17, 2023.
“The three crewmembers aboard could not extinguish the fire with portable extinguishers. So they secured...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued its report on the March 28, 2023, barge breakaway incident in an 11 barges under tow struck the Vane Dike at the arrival point for the McAlpine Locks and Dam in Louisville, Ky. The tow broke apart, resulting in an estimated $2 million in damages to the barges and cargo.
As we reported at the time, the cargoes carried aboard the breakaway barges were soy, corn, with one vessel with...
https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/inland/ntsb-reports-on-2-million-barge-breakaway-incident/
Even a partial sinking can be expensive and the National Transportation Safety Board has just released its report on one that brought a nearly $178,000 repair bill.
According to the NTSB, an obstructed check valve on a bilge pump led to the flooding and partial sinking of a 1979-built Marquette Transportation towing vessel Joanne Marie while moored at the Bollinger Quick Repair Shipyard on the Harvey Canal near New Orleans, in June last year.
The 65-foot-long Joanne Marie was found partially...
Complacency in the workplace is widely recognized as a safety hazard and a towing vessel captain’s complacency led to barges striking the Natchez-Vidalia Bridge last year in the Mississippi River, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.
The incident occurred on April 23, 2023 when the 1982- built160-foot-long towing vessel Susan K, owned by the Commerce Bank and operated by SCF Towing was transiting with 25 barges downbound on the Mississippi River toward the Natchez-Vidalia...
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its report on a January 9, 2023 Lower Mississippi River collision between two barge tows that caused the barges in both tows to break free. Several barges were damaged in the collision, and about 1,380 gallons of ethanol spilled into the waterway. Two minor injuries were reported. Damages to the barges were estimated at $1.36 million.
The incident occurred near Fort Adams, Miss, when the towing vessel Big D, operated by Florida Marine...
An engine room fire aboard a towing vessel was caused by overpressurization of the fuel day tank and a main engine fuel return system when a fatigued chief engineer inadvertently left the day tank overflow valves to the storage tanks closed, the National Transportation Safety Board says in a report released Wednesday.
On May 18, 2021, at about 6.53 p.m. local time, the 1957-built towing vessel Mary Lynn, operated by Hermann Sand and Gravel on lease from Missouri River Towing, was pushing two...
https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/inland/ntsb-reports-on-700000-fire-on-64-year-old-tow-boat/
National Transportation Safety Board reports of the collision between two towing vessels and analyzes the factors behind the accident.
Towing vessels’ collisionAt 0408 local time on March 15, 2019, the towing vessel Dixie Vandal, pushing a partially loaded fuel barge upbound through the Houston Ship Channel, struck the towing vessel Trinity and one of its barges, which were moored and preparing to discharge cargo at the Kinder Morgan Pasadena Liquids Terminal in Pasadena, Texas.
The contact...
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The NTSB reports of the collision and subsequent sinking of Towing vessel Specialist.
Specialist collides moored bargeAbout 0500 eastern standard time on March 12, 2016, the towing vessel Specialist, southbound on the Hudson River and towing a tower crane barge with two other tugboats, struck a spudded/moored construction barge alongside a concrete pier at the new Tappan Zee Bridge construction site near Tarrytown, New York.
The Specialist subsequently sank, resulting in the deaths of three...
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